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From: Dominic van Berkel <nazgjunk@gmail.com>
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To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org
Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: dicussions about basic vocabulary
Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 00:19:04 +0200
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On Friday 25 May 2007 00:01:54 m.kornig@sondal.net wrote:
> Oh, no! This is not what I mean, Robin.
>
> I'm not worried about the root words, i.e. "gismu" and
> "cmavo" (?). There seems to be consensus about these. And there
> are only a few thousand of them, as you pointed out. This
> should be relatively easy to learn. Well, some of them may
> not even be in the 10000 word dictionary I have in mind.
> Remember I want "everyday words". For instance, I think
> that some of the gismu are a bit too general to be relevant
> for everyday communication.
>
> I'm rather worried about the huge number of combinations
> and derivations! This is where I think there is a lack
> of consensus among speakers. Some of these combinations
> are realy difficult to tell apart. And everybody seems
> to have their own preferences.
>
> This is what is difficult to cope with for beginners.
>
> So it's not a questions of Lojban being too poot in vocabulary.
> On the contrary, I think Lojban is too rich (at least for a
> beginner)!
>
> Martin
>

Theoretically, we have the words - but no way in hell we have 10,000 words on 
which consensus has been reached, and that's what's necessary for the 
dictionary you're talking about. Lojban has a huge (pretty much infinite) 
vocab by combining different gismu and cmavo, but that doesn't mean we have 
the words to build a dictionary.

Dominic / Nazgjunk / mi'e pocev

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